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NBA Youngboy Finds Out His Son is NOT His « Ear Kandy Radio

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Palazzo Montecitorio per CleanRome

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#PalazzoMontecitorio si affaccia sulla piazza omonima e ospita la #CameradeiDeputati della #RepubblicaItaliana. Commissionato nel 1653 da #PapaInnocenzoX a #GianLorenzoBernini come residenza della famiglia #Ludovisi, subì più volte l’interruzione dei lavori di costruzione per contrasti tra Innocenzo X e il Principe Niccolò Ludovisi (che aveva sposato la cognata del Papa). I lavori vennero ripresi anni dopo dall’architetto #CarloFontana che convinse #InnocenzoXII a installarvi due importanti attività: la #CuriaPontificia e il #Dazio. Fontana conservò la caratteristica facciata convessa impostata dal Bernini aggiungendovi il campanile a vela e modificando il progetto dell’ingresso. Con il #Risorgimento, il palazzo fu espropriato dallo Regno d’Italia e destinato a ospitare la Camera dei deputati. I lavori di ampliamento furono affidati all’architetto palermitano #ErnestoBasile, esponente di primo piano della stagione #liberty italiana, che costruì un nuovo edificio alle spalle dell’originale. Basile mantenne infatti solo la parte frontale del palazzo berniniano innalzando, sulla piazza del Parlamento, il nuovo corpo di fabbrica caratterizzato da quattro torri angolari in mattoni rossi e travertino. All’interno di questo blocco Basile collocò l’aula delle sedute, illuminata da uno straordinario lucernario a ventaglio in stile liberty, il noto #Velario di #GiovanniBeltrami. A Basile si deve anche l’imponente salone detto #Transatlantico posto sul diametro dell’emiciclo e centro informale della vita politica italiana.

Palazzo Montecitorio overlooks the homonymous square and houses the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic. Commissioned in 1653 by Pope Innocent X to Gian Lorenzo Bernini as the residence of the Ludovisi family, it underwent several times the interruption of the construction work because of contrasts between Innocent X and Prince Niccolò Ludovisi (who had married the sister of the Pope). The work was taken up years later by the architect Carlo Fontana who persuaded Pope Innocent XII to install there two crucial activities: the Papal Curia and the Dazio. Fontana kept the characteristic convex façade set by Bernini adding a bell tower and changing the entrance project. During the Risorgimento period, the palace was expropriated by the Kingdom of Italy and destined to house the Chamber of Deputies. The works of the building expansion was entrusted to architect Ernesto Basile from Palermo, a leading exponent of Italian Art Nouveau season, who designed a new building behind the original. Basile mantained the Bernini façade but added a new building on the Parliament Square that features four corner towers in red brick and travertine. Within this block Basile placed the hall of sessions, illuminated by an extraordinary fan-shaped skylight, an Art Nouveau masterpiece: the known Velario by Giovanni Beltrami. Basile also designed the impressive lounge called "Transatlantico" placed on the hemicycle diameter that became the informal center of Italian political life.

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I SPY DIY DESIGN | Baby Girl Nursery Makeover

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Laughing Kookaburra Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae The laughing kookaburra was first described and illustrated (in black and white) by the French naturalist and explorer Pierre Sonnerat in his Voyage a la nouvelle Guinae which was published in 1776. He claimed to have seen the bird in New Guinea. In fact Sonnerat never visited New Guinea and the laughing kookaburra does not occur there. He probably obtained a preserved specimen from one of the naturalists who accompanied Captain James Cook to the east coast of Australia. Edme-Louis Daubenton and Francois-Nicolas Martinet included a coloured plate of the laughing kookaburra based on Sonnerat’s specimen in their Planches enluminaes d’histoire naturelle. The plate has the legend in French "Martin-pecheur, de la Nouvelle Guinae" (Kingfisher from New Guinea). In 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann provided a formal description of the species based the coloured plate by Daubenton and Martinet. He gave it the scientific name Alcedo nova Guinea. The current genus Dacelo was introduced in 1815 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach, and is an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin word for a kingfisher. The specific name novaeguineae combines the Latin novus for new with Guinea, based on the erroneous belief that the specimen had originated from New Guinea. For many years it was believed that the earliest description was by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert and his scientific name Dacelo gigas was used in the scientific literature but in 1926 the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews showed that a description by Hermann had been published earlier in the same year, 1783, and thus had precedence. In the 19th century this species was commonly called the "laughing jackass", a name first recorded (as Laughing Jack-Ass) in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins which was published in 1798. In 1858 the ornithologist John Gould used "great brown kingfisher", a name that had been coined by John Latham in 1782. Another popular name was "laughing kingfisher". The name in several Australian indigenous languages were listed by European authors including Go-gan-ne-gine by Collins in 1878, Cuck’anda by Rena Lesson in 1828 and Gogera or Gogobera by George Bennett in 1834. In the early years of the 20th century "kookaburra" was included as an alternative name in ornithological publications but it was not until 1926 in the second edition of the Official Checklist of Birds of Australia that the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union officially adopted the name "laughing kookaburra". The name comes from Wiradhuri, an Aboriginal language now effectively extinct. Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family. Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra’s range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye. Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal. Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees. Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch. Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as ‘helpers’ during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties. Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird’s range. The loud ‘koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa’ is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter ‘koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away. Minimum Size: 40cm Maximum Size: 45cm Average size: 42cm Average weight: 340g Breeding season: August to January (Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and Wikipedia) __________________________________________

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Boldt Castle

The lovely Boldt Castle on Heart Island in the Thousand Islands region on the border of Canada and the U.S. Heart Island is American territory, but as I didn’t enter the island (and only cruised around it) I didn’t need any papers or visa.

George Boldt, general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and manager of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, and his family enjoyed an earlier frame cottage on Hart Island (the island’s original name) for several summers, which they greatly expanded. In 1900, George Boldt launched an ambitious construction campaign to build a huge masonry structure, one of the largest private homes in the United States. He engaged the architectural firm G. W. & W. D. Hewitt and hundreds of workers for a six-story "castle" as a present to his wife. In addition, four other masonry structures on the island are architecturally notable. Equally distinctive is a huge yacht house on neighboring Wellesley Island, where the Boldts had another summer home and a vast estate, incorporating farms, canals, a golf course, tennis courts, stables, and a polo field.

The construction of Boldt Castle ceased abruptly in early 1904 after the death of Boldt’s wife, Louise Kehrer Boldt. Boldt never returned to Heart Island, leaving this structure as a monument of his love. For 73 years, the castle and other stone structures were left exposed to the harsh winter weather and occasional vandals. The Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired Heart Island and the nearby yacht house in 1977, for one dollar, under the agreement that all revenues obtained from the castle operation would be applied towards restoration, so that the island would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. In the two decades after acquiring the property, the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority spent some $15 million for restoration and improvements here, and work continues annually. The initial goal of the restoration of Heart Island was not to finish what had not been completed, but to restore the island to the state it was in when construction was halted. Improvements have gone beyond that stage, however; a stained glass dome, marble floor, and grand staircase woodwork, for instance, now seen in the main hall, were not original but are modern innovations.

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Planning the Perfect Corporate Picnic: Fun for the Whole Office

Are you responsible for planning your company’s corporate picnic or summer family outing? This blog covers fun ways to keep an entire office happy! #Snappening

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Marsco night

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The day had been spent enjoying the sun on Armadale beach, shell hunting and paddling with the family. A few days before I had enjoyed a grand morning adventure on The Cuillin Ridge and this evening I was given a green light to go and have another bit of fun in The Black Cuillin. Having an evening to play with, I chose a shorter route and headed round to Loch Slapin to head up Bla Bheinn. To my dismay , the sunshine that we had baked on in Armadale for most of the day had disappeared and as I rounded the corner at Torrin,Bla Bheinn and the surrounding hills were all clagged in – ah well, not to worry, I ‘d still get some exercise , if not any views! Being only a few weeks after the summer solstice, I had lots of day light ahead of me and I started as slowly as I could, heading up the hill. The reason for my snails pace was the slim hope that the longer I took, the higher the chances the cloud may dissipate from the summits!! Meeting lots of people on their way off the mountain, it didn’t look or sound promising! Wet hair and cloths suggested a thick mist was hanging around the Blue mountain. I eventually reached the corrie and the cloud was spilling over the bealach to my west and filling the bowl, it was really atmospheric, but not what I was after!! I took a right turn and started to head slowly up Bla Bheinns SE ridge , taking frequent breaks and hugging the top of the cliffs. Then it started to happen… at about 800m metres I turned around and started to notice the Red Cuillin behind me were now clear of cloud. To add to my excitement, I was now above the clouds that were floating in from the sea and up Loch Slapin, excitement rose and my pace quickened! It just got better and better! As I approached the summit my shadow was cast behind me and my Brocken Spectre followed me to the summit with a crown of Glories! Amazing! Then the crowning glory as I stepped up onto the summit – the whole of the black and Red Cuillin at my feet! The cloud had dropped as had the wind and I spent a good hour in solitude on the fine mountains. An evening I wouldn’t forget in a hurry… Hope you enjoy the video 

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ADVENTURE INTO THE WOODS | [Pitkin LA] – Family Travel Vlog #2 We are at a small…

ADVENTURE INTO THE WOODS | [Pitkin LA] – Family Travel Vlog #2 We are at a small cabin in the woods in Pitkin LA building a stronger family bond together with our kids. We came to our friend’s farm so that we could adventure into the woods to have some family bonding time. I love creating travel vlog style of videos with my family and we got into the golf carts and went to see what we could find around the farm. This family travel vlog contains berry picking cows games and tons of family fun. We love taking road trips so this this the second video of our trip to Pitkin LA to take the kids cabin camping. Don’t forget to check out my Instagram: @LaneVids Watch our Videos from Last Year in Pitkin: www.youtube.com/… Get Our FREE ebook: 52 Activities to Build a Stronger Family Bond: ift.tt/2zJBQS4 Thanks for watching your favorite family vlogger! Don’t forget to give these family vlogs a THUMBS UP and click the bell button so that you never miss any of our family friendly videos on our family vlogs with kids. We believe in creating stronger family bonds through travel learning and family fun. We create family travel vlogs fun family vlogs with our kids Amelia Jacques and our new addition coming in November to show you how you can connect with your family better. I hope to inspire and motivate you to build a stronger family bond with your kids by spending quality bonding time with them. SUBSCRIBE to learn how to build a stronger family bond in our family vlogs! www.youtube.com/… Check Out Our Channel: youtube.com/LaneVids PRODUCTS IN THIS VIDEO ———————- Tell-A-Story game: amzn.to/2rlEIAt Chippewa Boots: amzn.to/2HSUwSi Rush Hour Game: amzn.to/2riKpQO Blackfire Flashlight: amzn.to/2rl1c4N Candyland: amzn.to/2rguFxB Nikon D90 DSLR: amzn.to/2wduZCb PRODUCTS WE LIKE ———————- AirBNB: ift.tt/2y4Kjjm Nikon S9900: amzn.to/28MumV9 GoPro Hero4 Session: amzn.to/1nSgfiR Macbook Pro: amzn.to/1SMXDgY TubeBuddy: ift.tt/2k0xTnl (AMAZING YouTube Plugin) SUPPORT US ———————- Patreon: ift.tt/2fQ5Gep Amazon: ift.tt/2pp8K6q Merch: ift.tt/10aL6YX Support via PayPal: goo.gl/1u8198 More Ways to support us: ift.tt/2DKJ38H CONNECT WITH US: ——————— LANE Twitter // twitter.com/LaneVids Instagram // instagram.com/LaneVids Facebook // facebook.com/LaneVids Snapchat // snapchat.com/add/thefunnyrats Review Channel: Dad Reviews: youtube.com/… KRISTA Instagram // instagram.com/kristafourn KIDS Amelia // instagram.com/ameliakvids Jacques // instagram.com/jacquesvids VIDEOS —————— Get to Know us Better: WHO WE ARE: www.youtube.com/… TELLING OUR FRIENDS & FAMILY WE’RE PREGNANT: www.youtube.com/… LEARN ABOUT OUR GARDEN: www.youtube.com/… KIDS LEARNING TO SWIM: www.youtube.com/… 2016 SUMMER ROAD TRIP: www.youtube.com/… 2017 Summer Road Trip #1: www.youtube.com/… 2017 Summer Road Trip #2: www.youtube.com/… Help add subtitles to our videos using this special link: www.youtube.com/… Members Only Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/2412655535/ For business inquiries or licensing my content contact me at: LaneVids@gmail.com FTC Disclaimer: This video is not sponsored. This video and description contains affiliate links which means that if you click on one of the product links Ill receive a small commission. This help support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support!

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Sometimes

Kally Family – An Angel

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Roblox Makers course at CCBC

Unlock the power of ROBLOX ® Studio, the world creation tool used by real world ROBLOX ® developers! Learn how to build 3D models and create an adventure in your ROBLOX ® world. Bring characters to life with unique animations you design. Student-created projects will be available on a password protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. You will work in pairs or teams for most of the program.

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Tomato Frog (M)

Island Of Madagascar Off The East Coast Of Africa Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve

Photographed at Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve. The reserve had frogs, chameleons, and geckos. This is a male tomato frog. The females are large. An image of a female can be seen in the first comment section.

Wikipedia – Tomato frogs are any of the three species of genus Dyscophus (family Microhylidae): D. antongilii, D. insularis, or D. guineti. Dyscophus is the only genus in subfamily Dyscophinae. They are endemic to Madagascar.

The common name comes from D. antongilii’s bright red color. When threatened, a tomato frog puffs up its body. When a predator grabs a tomato frog in its mouth, the frog’s skin secretes a thick substance that gums up the predator’s eyes and mouth, causing the predator to release the frog to free up its eyes. The gummy substance contains a toxin that occasionally causes allergic reactions in humans. The allergic reaction will not kill a human and the frog secretes it only when frightened.

The lifespan of the tomato frog can be from 6 to 8 years. When adult, the colors may vary from yellowish orange to deep red.

Tomato frogs will reach sexual maturity in 9–14 months. Females are larger than males and can reach 4 inches in length. Males can reach 2 to 3 inches in length. Most females range from reddish-orange bright dark red. The bellies are usually more yellowish, and sometimes there are black spots on the throat. But males are not as brightly colored but more of a duller orange or brownish-orange. Juveniles are also dull in color and develop brighter coloration as they mature.

They are also on the endangered species list.

They breed in the rainy season and are nocturnal. They tend to eat small insects and invertebrates.

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Ladies we are squandering our power.

Ladies we are squandering our power.

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MUSIC IS THE KEY # 03 // MARVIN TRIBUTE

RADIO SHOW ON RIGHTON.FM

LISTEN MUSIC IS THE KEY – MAGIC MUSIC IT AND PODCAST IF YOU LIKE IT www.righton.fm/player.php?type=radioshows&id=465

Peintre et membre de la Right On Family, Music is the key est ma selection mensuelle du moment, celle qui tourne en boucle dans mon atelier. N’attendez rien d’autre qu’un pure sélection de Soul Music!

Painter and member of the right on family, Music is the key is my monthly selection of the music playing in my workshop at the moment. Expect nothing more than pure quality soul music!

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1- Les Mc Cann – What’s going on – Rhino 2- Leon Spencer – Trouble Man – Prestige 3_ Phil Upchurch – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Universal Japan 4- Marlena Shaw – Save The Children – Blue Note 5- Mato Vs. Erick Sermpon feat. Marvin Gaye – Music – Ah Yeah 6- The Hot 8 Brass Band – Sexual Healing – Tru Thoughts 7- Mongo Santamaria – I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Colombia 8- Grover Washington Jr. – Mercy Mercy Me ( The ecology ) – Verve 9- Donny Hathaway – What’s Goin’ On – Atco

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The Last Of A Forgotten Breed.

The Last Of A Forgotten Breed.

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Vampira V

Maila Nurmi was the original Queen of the Modern Gothic. Vampira, her iconic macabre creation, influenced generations of filmmakers, musicians, artists and lifestylers. Sadly, she shuffled off her mortal coil on January 10th, 2008. She was aged 86.

A Finnish-born model and actress, Maila had posed for Man Ray, Vargas and Bernard of Hollywood before being discovered at a masquerade ball by a TV producer. Her pale-skin and tight black dress complete with black wig and long, haemorrhage-red fingernails were quite unique in 1953. A year later, she became the eponymous star of The Vampira Show bringing a distinctive mix of sex, horror and death.

As the world’s first TV horror host, Vampira’s sardonic wit and eye-popping hourglass-figure made her the ghoulish fantasy of guys and ghouls across the globe, despite appearing on a show that was only broadcast in LA. Every week the voluptuous vamp would unleash blood-curdling screams and utter puns in an exotic and alluring Marlene Dietrich-like drawl – ‘I am…Vampira. I hope you all had the good fortune to have had a terrible week.’

After her show was cancelled, Maila accepted a tiny fee to appear as the reanimated corpse bride in Plan 9 From Outer Space, a role in the unfairly dubbed ‘Worst Film of all Time’, but it was one that would ensure Vampira’s immortality in popular culture.

As a star in the Golden Age of Tinsletown, Maila gigged with Liberace, dated Orson Welles, was friends with Marlon Brando and formed a tremendous kinship with James Dean, whose spirit, she claimed, haunted her for six months after his death.

Even as lady in her eighties, she was an incredible bright spark, a feisty old dame and a terrific raconteur, recalling stories from the old days with childlike glee. Like her icons-in-crime Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood, Maila Nurmi died nearly penniless, but she left behind a legacy that will endure forever.

Here’s the article I wrote for Bizarre Magazine…

The Lady is a Vamp

I’m sat in Pioneer Chicken, a fast-food joint off Sunset Boulevard, deep in discussion with Vampira, the world’s first TV horror host. Maila Nurmi, the Finnish-born performer beneath the famous black wig and nails was a phenomenon in the nineteen-fifties. Her iconic gothic style, sardonic wit and eye-popping hourglass-figure made her the ghoulish fantasy of guys and ghouls across the globe, despite appearing on a show that was only broadcast to the Los Angeles area. Every week the voluptuous vamp would emerge from dry-ice studio fog to the sound of creepy organ music. She would unleash a blood-curdling scream and utter puns in an exotic, sexual, Marlene Dietrich-like drawl – “I am…Vampira. I hope you all had the good fortune to have had a terrible week."

But this is not simply an interview with a vampire. Conversing with Naila Nurmi means taking a voyeuristic journey through the lives of mythological cult icons of fifties Hollywood. It seems that Vampira’s finger was firmly on the jugular pulse of the tinsletown scene during the beat generation. Captivating tales with James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley pour from her octogenarian lips, memories recalled with intensity and insight.

Since Maila claims psychic capabilities, one can also add a touch of the paranormal to this Hollyweird concoction. She speaks of clairaudience, strange premonitions and visions. Most sensationally, it was such psychic sensitivity that found her haunted by the spirit of James Dean, whose death profoundly affected her.

She’s certainly one tough cookie though, that’s for sure – strongly opinionated and gutsy. Before international fame, back when she was modeling for the likes of Bernard of Hollywood, Vargas and a young Man Ray, she still wasn’t taking any crap from studio big shots. Even movie mogul Howard Hawks – who discovered Maila performing a skeleton striptease in a New York show – suffered the wrath of Vampira’s razor-witted tongue, despite having just turned Lauren Bacall into a household name.

“I thought he was stupid, so I tore up my contract,” she giggles, tucking into her rice. “I told him to kindly find a place for it in one of his numerous waste baskets.”

Yet in 1956, her outspoken manner caused her blacklisting from the system. Broke, she accepted a measly $200 to play the reanimated corpse-bride of Bela Lugosi in the trash sci-fi epic Plan 9 From Outer Space. Irony, for this movie cemented her position in popular culture and led to Tim Burton’s marvelous biopic of director Ed Wood, one that cast model Lisa Marie as Maila.

At eighty-three, she’s still hip and sharp like Vampira’s fingernails.

So how did your famous horror host role come about?

I decided I wanted to become an evangelist. I had to sponsor myself and I thought I needed $20,000. How could I do it? Well, television was just warping people’s minds, so I thought could do that – and they paid big. I thought I’d satirise soap operas, I’d take improbable people and make them do all these bourgeois things. Since Charles Addams had already done it in comic form, I wanted it to bring it to television. So that is why I made the dress, went to a masquerade ball and won first prize. They discovered me and that was the end of it. But Vampira wasn’t really acting. It was television, just a lot of hogwash.

What went wrong with the revival of Vampira in the early eighties and the subsequent launch of the Elvira character?

Well I was dealing with KTTV for three months and then they suddenly didn’t want me to come to the studio anymore. They eventually called me in to sign a contract and she was there (Cassandra Peterson). They had hired her without asking me.

So it was going to be the Vampira name?

It’s Vampira all together. She did the whole thing with the Rocky Horror people. They stole it. They stole $100 million dollars. She was in 51 markets at one time with 350 kinds of merchandise; milked my cupboard bare.

Did you successfully sue?

I sued for eight years but not successfully. Finally I ran out of money. To continue would have cost $60,000. I wrote to the judge and said, “I’m sorry, I have no money. I have to close the case.” So he charged them to pay all the expenses. That money was meant for animal welfare and she spent it on cocaine and red limousines. Boy has the devil got that bitch—it’s the devil in her blood. That slut was a big player in porno movies – she was trying to hide her background. They deemed it unwise to reveal that fact so they told her to make up stuff if she was asked. But she said, “Why make it up when it is written here?” She was pretending to be me. How dare she? She’s such a low-life, such a no talent. She’s so stupid and she has no sense of timing. No sense of humor; such a common slut that speaks Americanese. Nasal. Phlegmatic. You know, the limousines and the lovers and the houses—they can take all that. Initially they wanted me. I wouldn’t do it because I didn’t want Vampira to be anything but perfect. I certainly didn’t want it to be a streetwalker-slut like that. Angelina Jolie would be a good Vampira.

Didn’t Vampira lead you to James Dean?

With the character I had been handed the keys to the city. I wanted to see who’s who and so I attended a movie premiere. But all I could find was vapid identities, people of whom I had no interest, except for one fellow who was with Terry Moore. I thought “him, that’s the one with the tuxedo and the collar, the farm boy hair that wouldn’t stay down.” Twelve hours after, I was sitting in Googies, and Jimmy rode up on his motorcycle, the windows rattled and the rest was history. We were never apart again. We were best friends instantly, like psychic Siamese twins.

Was he openly gay to his friends?

No. As he said, “do I look like someone who would go through life with one hand tied behind my back?” That was a courageous statement in those days. Jimmy was primarily heterosexual but he used men sexually to get ahead, and if he saw someone he liked, he liked them. More often it was women, but maybe that was because he had never got the really pretty girls before. He had always got the ugly leftovers that nobody else wanted.

How much time did you spend with him?

Seventeen-hundred hours, every moment to treasure. But he was just a little boy in search of his mother. Everyone must have seen it, maybe not known what it was, not how to read it, but they saw the feeling. I was a little more psychic so I knew what it was. He had the impression she had abandoned him. But after, I found out she died of cancer and hadn’t abandoned him at all, but she did go away and leave him all alone in the world. He was an only child and it was impossible for him to relate to his father. The father had probably married his mother for her boobs or something and had nothing in common with her. She raised a boy whom she named after a poet, James Byron. And the father didn’t know poetry from a hole in the ground. He was a nice, practical, and sensible dentist.

Do you remember when you heard that James Dean had died?

Yeah I was at home with Tony Perkins (Psycho). Jack Simmons (actor in Rebel Without A Cause and friend of Dean) had just left to visit some lesbian whores that lived a block away. We knew we had to tell Jack before someone else did, but then we had to go tell Ursula (Andress), Jimmy’s ladylove. We drove up and I waited in the car because I didn’t really know her very well. It was in a dead end street, and now dark. Then suddenly, Marlon (Brando) appeared at the car – he had been hiding in the bushes. Ursula had called him in hysterics screaming, “They are trying to kill me. They’re threatening me. They think he killed himself because of me. I’m frightened! You have to come. I’m alone.” She would have used any device to get to Marlon at that time, even though she was trying to break up John Derek’s marriage. She wanted Marlon above all; she even bought the same car that he had. So he went, but looked in the windows first to be sure that she wasn’t putting him on and that she was really upset. Then Jack found him in the bushes. “Maila’s over there, in the hearse,” he said.(laughs) So he came over to offer condolences.

I heard that the spirit of James Dean visited you.

He visited a lot of people. He was very active. Now a lot of people made it up too I’m sure, but even people who weren’t psychic had experiences. He was that strong. Jimmy was following me around and was with me a lot of the time for the first six months. There would be an ashtray, I’d look and say “don’t anybody touch the ashtray, it’s gonna go up. That’s Jimmy’s sign that he’s here.” And it would go up!

Did you have psychic tendencies early on?

Yeah, I was very psychic in those days. My first husband Dean Eisner (writer of Dirty Harry and Play Misty For Me) and I lived in Laurel Canyon. He came home from work one day and said a story editor was writing a TV series about us. TV was very new and it was very easy to get anything you wanted done. He said they called it “Laurel Canyon”, but apparently sold it under the working title Bewitched. That was written about Dean Eisner and I. You see my mother was a witch. She wasn’t practicing, but she couldn’t help but be a witch. It was natural. It exuded from her, the very essence of her. And I was very psychic too.

Didn’t you share some strange, paranormal experiences with Marlon Brando?

We were sitting around and chatting in the dining room and Einstein had died just three weeks before. Marlon always had a wonderful portrait of Einstein on his headboard and sometimes he would just shove it in your face. Suddenly Marlon says, “There’s someone here. It’s Einstein. He has a message for us.” I was included in the message. “You young ones have to hurry up,” That’s what Einstein told Marlon, who wasn’t inventing it – he believed it. He may have seen it or heard it. The point is that Marlon really wanted to believe that he was a humanitarian, and Einstein was urging him to hurry up with his duties. Marlon was a very humane human being, though he didn’t know how to be humane with his own children. Some of his best friends despised him and said he was a brute and a beast and nothing in-between. He’s either the gentlest, noble of human beings or the coarsest and grossest. How do you like them apples?

What was your first introduction to any of the Ed Wood clan?

I was a young girl window-shopping on Hollywood Boulevard. I was bending low to see the detail of some shoes and someone whizzed around the corner on roller skates, almost bumped my fanny and crashed into me. “Pardon me,” said he, and “Pardon me,” said I. He was wearing an ascot and a beret. It was Bela Lugosi on roller skates. He was on his way to a cigar store.

Had you heard of Ed Wood before you met him?

Yes, because there had been an article in a newspaper, saying that he wanted to make a movie with Vampira. The nerve of him! This was before I was blacklisted. After, I had no money and I couldn’t get a job. A guy came and visited me and offered $200 to make this Ed Wood movie called Grave Robbers From Outer Space (later changed to Plan 9). I thought it was a good title at least. Oh boy! So I did it, and he came into my life right after then.

Did you find Ed Wood to be an intelligent guy?

No. But anyone who has become a phenomenon has a karmic current carrying them there. Nobody who is normal has such drive. That’s got to be driven by something larger than life. There was something there that I didn’t understand or respect because I was an intellectual snob, but it was there alright.

How did Ed Wood react when he heard you didn’t want to speak his words?

Paul Marco told him, so I don’t know. I didn’t want to hurt his feelings, but my God, I could not say those words. I wish I had them today because I threw them away. Do you know what jewels those lines must have been? I tried to say them, but I curdled my own blood. (laughs) They were awful!

Did you go to the premiere of Plan 9 From Outer Space?

Yeah. The theatre was full of people. I was backstage and I could see the images behind the screen. People were in the wings, dictating to me when to walk out, so that I was there on screen at the same time as I walked across stage. The audience booed, whistled and threw popcorn – they loved it! But I never actually got to see the film as I had to leave, then the film was banned in Los Angeles for 26 years. It never played here and Ed Wood never knew why. They hated him I guess or maybe it was because of me. But Criswell told me that the film played in a small theatre in New York for over a year and a half, with just standing room only all the time. When it was on the road in Indianapolis, even though it was pouring with rain, people queued around the block with newspapers over their heads. It was very popular. People knew it was Lugosi’s last film.

What kind of state of mind do you think Ed Wood have when he later made porn films?

He loved the porn. He was in his element. He would have been very unhappy if he had known he couldn’t have done porn again. He just kept writing them so fast. He’d write a whole pornographic book in just two days.

Did Tim Burton talk to you before he filmed the movie Ed Wood?

Yes. He introduced me to his stuffed bat. The film was accurate in some way but he wasn’t really trying to be accurate. It was a docu-drama. He was taking liberties, which he was entitled to do, but he got some of the essences correct—the ones that he should have retained. And then he embroidered a little. Johnny Depp is such a good actor and was believable as Ed Wood. Although it wasn’t exactly the same persona, his essence was there. The enthusiasm was so believable – such gung-ho enthusiasm.

Finally, is it right you had an encounter with Elvis before he became famous?

I went to Las Vegas with Liberace and met a19 year-old Elvis. I was there eating breakfast in the hotel and across the huge dining room in backlight – because the sun was shining through the windows – I could see three older men, smoking cigars, looking plump and eating. A tall, young, graceful man came in, and sat with them. Then on the intercom it said that somebody was wanted on the telephone. This young guy got up, and walked like Robert Mitchum. All I saw was his silhouette, that was it. So I paid my bill and walked past the men and said, “well congratulations, he��s going to be the biggest movie star in the world. I see he has tremendous magnetism.” “Ah,” they said, “thank you.” (laughs). And I hadn’t yet seen Elvis’ face. But the next night when he opened, I went with Liberace and his whole family. A side curtain parted and this kid comes out alone. I had never seen someone boldly standing on a stage – supposedly a heterosexual male – wearing turquoise eye shadow and grinding his hips like that. I thought, “oh-my-god. What am I seeing? This music is great.” The orchestra, one by one put down their instruments. They crossed their arms and refused to play. The audience started booing, and they booed him off the stage. Then a voice said to me – and I wasn’t on any drugs – “go around the side of the hotel and in the back, there’s a swimming pool and you’ll find someone in a canary yellow jacket.” Now I hadn’t seen a jacket like that anywhere. But I went around and in the dark moonless night, far away I could see the double doors of the casino, golden with light. They opened and a figure came into the doorway. It was Elvis, wearing a canary yellow jacket. He looked confusedly into the darkness, so I said, “I’m over here.” We walked towards each other, sat down and talked. I told him that I was a performer and that what happened was absolutely awful. He said, “every night before I go on, I talk to God and he always answers me. But tonight he didn’t answer. When them curtains opened and I saw all those white heads and them glasses, I knew why.“ I told him I admired his courage and that they only did that because they’re sheep and they do as they think they are supposed to do. One person booed and so then they all did. They’ve never, ever seen anything like you and it frightened them. But, Life Magazine are going to discover you (because that’s what they did in those days) and they will kiss your shoes.” He said, “it’s coming out Thursday” and it did. I was thirty-three and he said to me, “I know you’re getting old and all, but if you’d like to come back after the show, I’d be proud to take you back to my bungalow.” (laughs) His hallowed words! And so Elvis went back to do a second show.

Many thanks to Joe Moe and Forry for their assistance with this interview.

(Photos and Words Copyright – Mark Berry)

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